2004 WNBA draft
U.S. women's basketball player selection
title: "2004 WNBA draft" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["wnba-draft", "2004-wnba-season"] description: "U.S. women's basketball player selection" topic_path: "general/wnba-draft" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_WNBA_draft" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary U.S. women's basketball player selection ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox sports draft"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 2004 WNBA draft |
| sport | Basketball |
| date | April 17, 2004 |
| location | Secaucus, New Jersey |
| league | WNBA |
| merging_teams | Cleveland Rockers |
| (folded in 2003) | |
| first | Diana Taurasi |
| Phoenix Mercury | |
| prev | 2003 |
| next | 2005 |
| :: |
| name = 2004 WNBA draft | image = | caption = | logo = | logosize = | sport = Basketball | date = April 17, 2004 | location = Secaucus, New Jersey | network = | league = WNBA | teams = | merging_teams = Cleveland Rockers (folded in 2003) | first = Diana Taurasi Phoenix Mercury | territorial = | prev = 2003 | next = 2005
The 2004 WNBA draft was the eighth draft in the WNBA's history. It took place on April 17, 2004, at the NBA Entertainment Studios in Secaucus, NJ.
Additionally, on January 6, 2004, the WBNA held a dispersal draft to re-assign players from the Cleveland Rockers who folded at the end of 2003 WNBA season.
Key
Draft
Round 1
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg" caption="[[Diana Taurasi]] was selected first overall by the [[Phoenix Mercury]]."] ::
::data[format=table]
| Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | School / club team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diana Taurasi * | G | Phoenix Mercury | Connecticut | |
| 2 | Alana Beard * | G | Washington Mystics | Duke | |
| 3 | Nicole Powell + | G/F | Charlotte Sting (from Indiana) | Stanford | |
| 4 | Lindsay Whalen * ^ ! | G | Connecticut Sun (from San Antonio) | Minnesota | |
| 5 | Shameka Christon + | G/F | New York Liberty | Arkansas | |
| 6 | Nicole Ohlde | C | Minnesota Lynx (from Seattle) | Kansas State | |
| 7 | Vanessa Hayden | C | Minnesota Lynx | Florida | |
| 8 | Chandi Jones | G/F | Phoenix Mercury | Houston | |
| 9 | Ebony Hoffman | C | Indiana Fever (from Charlotte) | USC | |
| 10 | Rebekkah Brunson + | F | Sacramento Monarchs | Georgetown | |
| 11 | Iciss Tillis | C/F | Detroit Shock (from Houston) | Duke | |
| 12 | Christi Thomas | F | Los Angeles Sparks | Georgia | |
| 13 | Shereka Wright | F | Detroit Shock | Purdue | |
| :: |
Round 2
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Lindsaytaylor.JPG" caption="[[Lindsay Taylor]] the 26th pick of the [[Houston Comets]]."] ::
::data[format=table]
| Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | School / club team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Ashley Robinson | C | Phoenix Mercury | Tennessee | |
| 15 | Kaayla Chones | C | Washington Mystics | NC State | |
| 16 | Jessica Brungo | F | Connecticut Sun (from San Antonio) | Penn State | |
| 17 | Amisha Carter | C | New York Liberty | Louisiana Tech | |
| 18 | Kelly Mazzante | F | Charlotte Sting (from Indiana) | Penn State | |
| 19 | Trina Frierson | F | Seattle Storm | Louisiana Tech | |
| 20 | Tasha Butts | F | Minnesota Lynx | Tennessee | |
| 21 | Cindy Dallas # | F | San Antonio Silver Stars (from Connecticut) | Illinois | |
| 22 | Jenni Benningfield | F | Charlotte Sting | Vanderbilt | |
| 23 | Erika Valek # | G | Detroit Shock (from Sacramento) | Purdue | |
| 24 | Ugo Oha # | C | Connecticut Sun (from Houston) | George Washington | |
| 25 | Doneeka Hodges | G | Los Angeles Sparks | LSU | |
| 26 | Lindsay Taylor (traded to Phoenix) | C | Houston Comets (from Detroit) | UC Santa Barbara | |
| :: |
Round 3
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Perkins-20161011.jpg" caption="[[Jia Perkins]] the 35th pick of the [[Charlotte Sting]]."] ::
::data[format=table]
| Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | School / club team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Maria Villarroel # | ||||
| (traded to Houston) | G | VEN | Phoenix Mercury | Oklahoma | |
| 28 | Evan Unrau # | F | Washington Mystics | Missouri | |
| 29 | Candace Futrell | G | Connecticut Sun (from San Antonio) | Duquesne | |
| 30 | Catherine Joens | G | New York Liberty | George Washington | |
| 31 | Ieva Kubliņa # | F/C | Indiana Fever | Virginia Tech | |
| 32 | Jennifer Smith | C | Detroit Shock (from Seattle, via Houston) | Michigan | |
| 33 | Amber Jacobs | G | Minnesota Lynx | Boston College | |
| 34 | Toccara Williams | G | San Antonio Silver Stars (from Connecticut) | Texas A&M | |
| 35 | Jia Perkins + | G | Charlotte Sting | Texas Tech | |
| 36 | Nuria Martínez | F | Sacramento Monarchs | Avenida (Spain) | |
| 37 | Stacy Stephens | C | Houston Comets | Texas | |
| 38 | Kate Bulger # | G | Minnesota Lynx (from Detroit) | West Virginia | |
| :: |
References
References
- "2004 WNBA Dispersal Draft Recap".
- (January 6, 2004). "Darling goes to Lynx in dispersal draft". [[ESPN]].
- (January 5, 2004). "2004 Dispersal Draft Preview".
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::